Students

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Student News

Benjamin Boucher

Congratulations to Benjamin who successfully defended his doctoral thesis today! Benjamin extended robust optimization models in very novel ways. He is continuing his career at Meta.

Congratulations to Zhen for successfully defending his thesis on the interplay of optimization and machine learning. Zhen is continuing his career at Google. Congratulations, Zhen!

Angelos Koulouras

The barrage of graduations continues. Angelos Koulouras defended his PhD thesis today. He has done excellent work in adaptive optimization in electricity markets, as well as in healthcare—though the latter was not part of his thesis. Angelos will be continuing his career at Amazon. Warm congratulations, Angelos!

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Thodoris Koukouvinos

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George Margaritis

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Pericles Petrides

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Maura Suzanne Hegarty

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Vassilina Stoumpou

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Dewang Kumar Agarwal

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Graduated PhD Students

Adaptive and dynamic models in marketing, 2003

A Lagrangean decomposition method for dynamic optimization and its applications, 2003

Natasha Busheva

Finance without price dynamics, 2003

An Integer programming approach to data mining, 2003

Pricing and revenue management in a network environment, 2003 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2003)

Dessi Pachamanova

A robust optimization approach to nance, 2002

Approximate dynamic programming for integer programming problems, 2000

A stochastic control approach for multiclass queueing networks, 1999 (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 2000)

The bottleneck phenomenon in transportation systems, 1999

Applications of optimization in probability, nance and revenue management, 1999, (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1999)

Thalia Chryssikou

Multiperiod portfolio optimization in the presence of transaction costs, 1998

Stability and performance of multiclass queueing networks, 1997

Stochastic and dynamic models for air traffic flow management, 1997 (1st prize in Transportation Dissertation of INFORMS, 1997, 2nd prize in Dantzig award, 1997)

Constructing approximation algorithms via linear programming relaxations: primal dual and randomized rounding techniques, 1996 (honorable mention in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1996)

Ioannis Paschalidis

Large deviations in high speed communication networks, 1996 (2nd prize in Nicholson competition of INFORMS, 1997)

Graduated Postdoctoral Students

Bartolomeo Stellato

John Silberholrz

Angelos Georghiou

Ebrahim Nasrabadi

Christopher Maes

Eugene Perevalov

Graduated Masters Students

Thai Dung Nguyen

Application of robust and inverse optimization in transportation, 2010

Van Vinh Nguyen

Fairness and optimality in trading, 2010

Robust option pricing - an epsilon arbitrage approach, 2009

Optimizing the operations of the emergency department at the Beth Israel Hospital via simulation, 2008

Robust optimization applications, 2008

A robust optimization approach to network equilibrium, 2007

Optimal bounds for American options, 2006

A robust optimization approach to optimization of queueing networks, 2006

Cheong Foong Soon

Hedging Strategy and Effect of Transaction Costs for American Options in an Incomplete Market, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2002

Constantine Caramanis

Bounds on linear partial differential equations via semidefinite optimization, 2001

A discrete optimization approach to classification, Singapore-MIT-Alliance, 2001

Pricing in a competitive environment: a learning approach, 2000

Constantine Tsiligakis

Portfolio construction through mixed integer programming, 1999

Supply chain management: an approximate dynamic programming approach, 1998

Multiperiod portfolio optimization: Feynmann diagrams and approximate dynamic programming, 1998